One thing we’ll be doing on the new GuanxiOnline (also known as GO China) is recommend books and other resources, and ask visitors to comment on and add new material. Here are a few recommendations sent by a colleague in New York who travels to China frequently:

Asian Mind Games, probably the best book I have ever read on the subject, written by a Taiwanese woman, Chin-ning Chu, president of Asian Marketing, Consultants who has studied in the USA and dealt with the mainland Chinese for years

The recently published Chinese Lessons by John Pomfret

The famous China: Alive in the Bitter Sea by Fox Butterfield, written in the early 1980s.

“These three books,” my colleague wrote, “plus a general book of Chinese modern history [that is, from 1841, the first of the Opium Wars, to the present] make an excellent package for someone who wants a good sense of how modern China thinks and how it got there.”